Ibn Khaldun Quotes

History is about loops and continuums.

The events of future history ... will be of the same nature—–or nearly so—–as the history of the past, so long as men are men.

History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

History repeats herself.

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

Things work in cycles.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

I think history is just so cyclical.

History goes in cycles.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.